Music can act many roles. It can help people to express their ideas and feelings. It may evoke resonance among listeners. Listeners can feel the feelings of singers. Also, the listeners who have the same thought with singers may easier to arouse resonance. It can help to attract attention and help to promote issues. Moreover, music can break down barriers. It is a special language which attract people around the world. It acts as a platform for the fans to communicate with each other.
Does music change anything? Can it change the world?Someone may say music can change the society as it attracts attention to certain social problems and motivate people to handle those issues. For me, I think music has some influence. However, songs may not succeed in solving problems in society such as environment protection and famine. But is it really motivating society to change?
Raise the awareness
The first song is “We are the world”. It is a charity song. This song raised the awareness towards famine in Ethiopia and disadvantage groups in Africa and United State. It had raised over $63 million in 2009 which provided aid for them. We can see that this song was able to attract the attention and call for charity in the world.
The second song is “Do They Know It’s Christmas”. The singers for this song were Geldof and Ure. They wished to raise money for the famine in Ethiopia. At that time, many people supported this song. For example, Trevor Horn provided Sarm West Studios for Geldof and Ure free of charge. This song had raised more than $28 million.
Act as a platform
Music can act as a platform. It is not only for entertainment. It also provides a place for social issues discussions. Message can deliver by music. There are many songs talk about racial discrimination and civil rights such as “Say it Loud”. Music has the ability to encourage masses to think about the social issues. We can listen to music everywhere. For example, most of the shops play music. When people attract by some music that they don’t know, they may want to understand the message bring by music. It is an easy way to attract attention and mobilize people as music is easy to spread out.
Solve the social problems?
We can see that both charity songs rose the attention and raised lot of money which hope to solve famine in Ethiopia. However, Ethiopians still in hunger in 2021. Although music can gain attention, it failed to change the problem.
There is no denying that music affects the society. Music can deliver message and rise attention. It may encourage people to tackle for certain issues such as race discrimination and famine. However, does music succeed in change the society? I think that it fails to succeed. Although it raises the awareness of certain social issues, the power of people is not enough to solve the problems. Famine in Ethiopia are still widespread. The society cannot change.
Yes! You are right! I think songs can raise awarenesses and help to change the world indirectly. Excluding the charity songs, some songs may also can raise awarenesses of people world-wide about the social issues of the countries.
That's true. Although this music can't make people really solve the problem, their awareness towards these issue are raised. I believe more and more people realize these issues, they eventually will give enough pressure to the world and government to tackle the problem.
I believe that there is a strong tradition in people’s mind, it is hard to change the society by listening to a song, but I think that a song could thought-provoking discussion topics. It takes a long time to change.
Yes, I totally agree with your points. Music is a platform to communicate with people and raise their interest of the social issue. However, it is not a powerful way to solve the problems. The problems still in the society.
I agree that music helps raise awareness of social problems. Although music cannot completely solve the problem, it can act as a symbol, and unite people together from all around the world. It is because music have no national bouldaries.